Pantaloons-stretcher



(No Model.)

G. BRINTON. PANTALOONS STRETGHBR.

PatentedApLlQ', 1887.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE BRINTON, OF HARRISBURG, PENNSYLVANIA.

PANTALOONS-STRETCHER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 361,260, dated April 19, 1887.

i Application filed December 9, 1886. Serial No. 221,147. (No model.)

To a/ZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE BRINTON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Harrisburg, in the county of Dauphin and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvementsin Pantaloons-Stretchers and Shape-Restorers,of which the following is a speciiication.

My invention aims to restore the original shape of the pantaloons-legs below and to remedy bagging at the knees. lTo effect these results I employ an extensible holder for suspending the garment properly to derive the benet of weights attached to the legs below to act by the pull-down rightly at the knees to restore their shape. v 1

My said holder distends .the pantaloons at the Waist, it being a brace that accommodates itself' to different sizes of the garment and made of two bars that interlock at all points,

the outer end of one bar holding by the front waist-button and the other bar by the buckle trap, t-he suspending-cordV embracing both ars.

My said weight devices each consists of a springbow provided at each extremity with a shaping-block pivoted vor hinged to swing upon an axis which is at right angles to the plane of said bow, in combination with a pivoted clamp secured yieldingly upon the outer face of each of said blocks below and adapted to be rotated upon its pivotal bearing for retaining the pantaloons-legs upon said blocks in front and behind by the pinching stress of the clamp. Both the legs being thus weighted, the shape of them will be well restored both below and at the knees, the garment having been previously dampened and allowed to hang until dry, with my said devices applied The same parts are similarly lettered in all the views.

Letters A Ar denote two corresponding round bars formed with the eyes d d at their inner ends, respectively, through and by which the bars are guided upon and interlock with each other, and the outer ends of the bars are formed as oval hooks C, by which one engages the pantaloons inside, right under the front waist-button, a', and the other hook engages the buckle-strap, as shown. After the hooks are thus applied the said bars may be shifted to hold the garment braced from front to rear, and weight added to the garment below tends to keep said arms interlocked at all points. The cord G or other tie inserted between the bars and looped around both serves to add friction, and thus helps to hold them interlocked while they are hung up by the tie on a peg, e, as shown.

' Each of my pantaloonsleg stretching and shaping devices consists of the spring-bow M, having one or more coils formed at its middle and having its limbs M extended, as shown, and attached to the shapingblocks Q, formingtherewith hinge-j oints whose axes are at right angles to the plane ofthe bow. The pintles of the hinges are preferably' cast in longitudinalrecesses in said blocks, having at the sides of the recesses or slots the lugs or flanges k, which serve to guide the movement of said limbs, whose ends are bent to form circular` hooks, by which they are joined' to. said pintles. It is evident that the ends of said limbs may be turned at right angles to the plane of the bow and they inserted in lugs formed on the insides of the blocks as pivots, upon which the blocks may turn as they do upon said pintles. Said blocks are half-oval shells viewed in cross section7 and the rims thereof are notched at Z x, as shown, to allow said limbs to foldtherein compactly for shipping, as shown in Fig. 2.. i

The lower ends of the blocks Q are formed as outwardly-offset abutments Q', having upon each a plane bearing outside and a springreceptacle inside of the abutment. Upon each of said abutments is pivoted the clamp P, formed with a flat wrist adapted to rest upon said bearing and revolve thereon about IOO its pivotal attaching-bolt m, and with a palm or arm adapted to bear against the pantaloonsleg when it is 011 the block Q, as shown. Said clamp is held to its bearing on the abutment Q yieldingly, to allowsaid palm to come to its bearing on the cloth without pulling it awry or tearing it, and also to suit different thicknesses of cloth. Said clamp is therefore attached by thc pivoting bolt or rivet m, inserted through said clamp and abutment so as to take under the nut or washer XV on the inner end thereof, the spring R,which is thereby held compressed in a receptacle in said abutment, as shown, thus drawing said palm to its place of duty by elastic tension.

In the act of inserting the leg-stretohers the reversible clamps P are first turned down, as shown on the left of Fig. 3. Then the arms M are compressed manually and the blocks Q inserted into the pantaloons-leg up to the offset at the part Q', and while held in this position with one hand the clamps I) are turned up with the other hand and set to pinch the cloth, as desired, by this means attaching the appliance to the saidleg. The limbs M/ now being let free, they exert themselves by the spring of the bow and thus stretch the pantaloons-leg from front to rear, the oval lorm of said blocks at the same time helping` to shape it. The weight of thelcg-stretehing appliances, in conibination with my waist-distending holder, already deseribed, serve also to restore the shape at the knees and throughout where bagging is liable to occur.

I do not broadly claim the use of my said holder, for two bars embracing each other through eyes or keepers at their inner ends have .before been used; but I am not aware that such bars had their free ends formed into oval hooks and thereby applied to the waist at the front button of a pair of pantaloons and to the bucklestrap ot' the same for Suspending the garment, with special reference to secure the benefit of tension thereon from eyes arranged in the plane of the bow, of two l blocks, Q, each formed with a transverselyarranged hinge-pintle in a longitudinallyflanged recess or slot, and having one of said eyes embracing said piiitle andihelimb guided by the walls of the recess, and of two clamps, I, each pivoted to the offset-abutment Q of said blocks by the bolt or rivet m, provided with the part W', bearing on the spring R, whereby the clamp is held against the outside of said abutment by springtension and permitted to be rotated thereon, as and for the purposes shown and described.

3. In a pantaloonsstretcher and shape-ie storer, an expansible holder adapted at its extremities to engage the waistband about the front button and the buckle-strap near its mid dle, in combination with two devices applied as weights to the legs of the pautaloons below,

each consisting of a spring-bow provided at each extremity with a block hinged thereto to swing upon an axis which is at right angles to the plane of the bow, and ol' a pivoted clamp secured yieldingly upon the outer face of each of said blocks and adapted to be rotated upon4 its pivotal bearing for holdingthe pantaloons leg between it and said block, as and for the purposes set forth.

GEORGE BRINTON. In presence of D. C. MAURER. TrIEorIIILUs VViiiivnn. 

